Hippocampus algiricus Kaup, 1856

Peter Wirtz, Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronald Fricke, Joao Luiz Gasparini, Tomio Iwamoto, Luiz Rocha, Claudio L. S. Sampaio & Ulrich K. Schliewen, 2007, Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update., Zootaxa 1523, pp. 1-48 : 7

Hippocampus algiricus Kaup, 1856

CAS 21441 (1 specimen) Príncipe, mouth of a creek flowing into Praia Rei, Bahia das Agulhas. UFES 154 (4 specimens) Lagoa Azul. Afonso et al. (1999) used the synonym H. punctulatus Guichenot, 1853 . A color photo of an animal from São Tomé was printed in Debelius (1998) and in Kuiter (2000) under the synonym H. deanei Dumeril, 1857 . According to Lourie et al. (2004), the habitat is unknown. The NGS expedition found this to be a common species in shallow water (from 1 m depth down to at least 25 m depth), frequently clinging to large sponges.